My first Mosin Nagant...

[Junk Yard Dog]

Does anyone know where I can get an original M91 sling? I have everything else including the bayonet with sheath. All I need to finish it is a sling and I really want to get one that's 100 yrs old or close to it...

You could call Liberty tree, just click on the banner found at the top of every board page. The Mosin sling is a simple strap made by many countries who used these rifles. They all used leather at one time or another, but none dated the slings. There is probably some complex scientific method to determine the age of leather using carbon 14 or DNA, but a well used leather sling 20 years old can easily look a century old. With our infantry rifles like the M1 Garand, or the M1903 we had a true shooters sling in the M1907, the Mosin had a simple leather or canvas strap.

[bunkysdad]

Just find you a good Mosin Sling that is authentic and you'll be fine. I found a brown leather sling sold as a Finnish M39 sling. But most M39 slings are green leather, which would be ok as they are good quality leather slings that are strong enough to actually function as a sling. I just don't prefer the green on a M91 so I looked till I found a brown one. I hope you are able to remember what you learned about those M91 barrel bands. It is the reverse threads that gets new owners every time. And the screws when turned right to stretch the band enough to remove, stay on the band. They should not be able to be removed. As for gently driving out the pins there would never be a reason to consider disturbing such delicate items. No way Jose. Steelbuttplate, you couldn't have needed to remove them for any reason I can imagine, but ok. Whatever. Anyway, reading this has made me want to take my M91 to the range today.